However, for all the superlatives about the to-drool-for football on show, the match, as ever, featured its fair share of unsavoury moments – most despicably this apparent stamp by Barca’s Sergio Busquets on Madrid rival Pepe’s head.

Pepe, of course, is no saint himself but this was, literally, a step too far, with a hefty ban now seemingly inevitable for Busquets.